Excerpt from Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, 1889, Vol. 5: A Yearly Report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences Throughout the World BY way of preface to the notes on General Therapeutics for the year 1888, I can but repeat what was said in beginning the same subject in the last volume of the annual, that the omission of reference to any important therapeutical papers found in the journals during the year is to be explained by the fact. That these articles have been given into the hands Of editor of other depart ments, and references to them should be sought for there. The number of journal articles handed me has been enormous - so great, in fact, that I have been obliged to condense remarks upon them as far as possible. In order to do this, and to avoid duplicating subject-matter, an arrangement has been made with the editor of the department of Experimental Therapeutics, by which all botan ical and chemical matters, including the description of drugs, etc., have been referred to him, and the department Of General Thera peutics confined strictly to the clinical application of medicines, including some remarks on food and water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.